Evolutionary Data Hackathon: This spring NESCent organized an event that challenged a select group of programmers to improve interoperability of resources used in phylogenetics and evolutionary studies. The Evolutionary Database Interoperability Hackathon brought together programmers representing online data resources (e.g., MorphBank, TreeBase) with the developers of "glue" technologies that emerged from NESCent's Evolutionary Informatics working group. The EvoInfo working group (co-organized by Rutger Vos and Arlin Stoltzfus) focused on interoperability technologies, and generated

• the NeXML data exchange standard
• the Comparative Data Analysis Ontology (CDAO),
• the PhyloWS web services standard.

For more information, see the UMBI newsfeed article or go directly to the Hackathon Report.